Tag: travel
June 20, 2021
Da Nang: Afterglow
Astronauts aboard the ISS see 16 sunsets from space every day, while the Little Prince once saw 44 by moving his chair a few paces, but it only takes one sundown, one quotidian scientific event of light refracted through particles in the atmosphere, to hurl me back into my feelings.
April 10, 2021
Seattle 2019
Most tourists make a beeline for the Space Needle and Pike Place Market, and so do I - happily dawdling around the food stalls and bookshops with a piroshky from a Russian bakery in one hand and a caramel macchiato from the original Starbucks store in the other.
December 17, 2020
Washington, D.C. 2019
Do we want to try and go on a White House tour? I asked. Not during this administration, my mother replied. So here we finally are, gazing across at the White House and it looks... diminished by the last four years.
November 6, 2020
Philly 2019: At home in America
I began to write this on the eve of the US elections, and it is... unsettling to know that three days after, right now there are people dressed as dancing mail boxes on the streets of Philly.
August 16, 2020
